Need help with Wild Caught fish...

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There is a shoal of 12 giant danios in the tank already and a green terror that they push around a bit. I've seen them cruise around a bit, but when I am in front of the tank they usually scatter.

I'm going to pick up some frozen blood worms/ brine shrimp today... hopefully they take to it.
 
Lost one festae today....

I had my eye on the runt because he was hiding a lot. Today I went to move him and to my surprise another was in terrible condition... I moved him out, and held him in my had over the aerator in my other tank (30 gallons). He regained some strength but after about an hour he finally gave up....

The runt is in the 30g quarantine now, and the remaining three in the 75g have still not taken to food.
 
Hey Rush-I hope they do ok. The only experience I have with wild caughts are my fancy plecs. I've had a few that wouldn't eat period until I tried frozen brine shrimp and frozen bloodworms. Brine shrimp has very little nutritional value but it got them eating, not sure what they like about that stuff. You wormed them with General Cure or PraziPro, didn't you? I can't add much else as I feel you know more than I do....although I am rooting for them to do well.
Edit: Oh crud. I just saw you lost one, I'm sorry.
 
good luck, i have had trouble in the past with wc festae, and so have a few fellow hobbyists down this way.
 
Lost the runt too... sh#t....
 
i just recieved two more wc from rapps and they looked a lil roug and had more of a brighter yellow rather than golden. i have them in with four other WC that i got a few months ago and seem to be doin fine but its still the first night. good luck with yours deff sounds like a parasite. and one of my new guys showed up with ick too. so im treating that right now.
 
UPDATE: I've struggled so much with these guys that I've been too down to update or even post pics... I've lost all but one of the festae... :( It makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about how fast these guys went down.

I don't know if it was any particular illness, or the lack of food, or just plain stress, but one by one they seemed to slowly fail. After the first two went, I noticed one weak one hiding by the filter intake. I moved him out into the 30g quarantine tank. I fed him some blood worms and he seemed to be doing well. I thought he had eaten a bunch because later that night, his belly appeared full... the next morning he was dead - bloat I assume.

That left two 3.5 inch festae in the 75g. Both seemed healthy, and I had seen them eating blood worms. I was confident in these two. I left for the weekend and came home to another dead one. :(

One left. He/She is doing well, and eats blood worms readily. I'm going to fatten him up and slowly get him onto pellets... Hopefully this one will survive.
 
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